Untitled, 2017. 16mm film, 5:36 minutes.

This untitled work follows the arc of an encounter between two subjects in a series of spaces. In each space, the ritual of encounter flickers, exposing the concurring initial encounter within each of the two subjects’ inner landscapes. The film is meant to challenge the embedded understanding of subjectivity between two meeting human beings, bearing themselves to each other, within a prescribed understanding of a separateness between them and the space they occupy.

I am me,

you are you,

we meet as separate entities,

attempting to find

common ground,

ground,

we stand atop

the ground,

we are not ground,

the ground is beneath us,

we are between it

and

what?

The film moves towards annihilation of these ideas and sensations. Bodies overlap and disappear, leaving four empty landscapes in their wake.

Shrey
Mendiratta

B.A. Integrative Biology, 2017
| UC Berkeley
Film Media
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Shrey is a recent graduate, interested in film ranging from 16mm experimental pieces to soviet era works. She is currently working on various photography and film projects, steering through a sea of influences, making the works that emerge from a movement in unlearning.